A/HRC/RES/57/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 October 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-seventh session
9 September–11 October 2024
Agenda item 8
Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 10 October 2024
57/23.
National human rights institutions
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action and other relevant instruments,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated,
interdependent and mutually reinforcing and that all human rights must be treated in a fair
and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on
Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on national institutions for the promotion and
protection of human rights, including most recently Assembly resolution 78/204 of 19
December 2023 and Council resolution 51/31 of 7 October 2022,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of
the post-2015 development agenda and pledged that no one would be left behind,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recalling that the 2030 Agenda is guided by the purposes and principles of the
Charter, grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights
treaties, the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome
and informed by other instruments, such as the Declaration on the Right to Development, and
recognizing, inter alia, the need to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies that provide
equal access to justice and are based on respect for all human rights, effective rule of law and
good governance at all levels and transparent, effective and accountable institutions,
Recalling also the general principles enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, namely, non-discrimination, full and effective participation and
inclusion in society, respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part
of human diversity and humanity, individual autonomy and independence of persons with
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